1st Edition
Mathematical Principles of Human Conceptual Behavior The Structural Nature of Conceptual Representation and Processing
By Ronaldo Vigo
Copyright 2015
260 Pages
by
Psychology Press
274 Pages
by
Psychology Press
260 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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The ability to learn concepts lies at the very core of human cognition, enabling us to efficiently classify, organize, identify, and store complex information. In view of the basic role that concepts play in our everyday physical and mental lives, the fields of cognitive science and psychology face three long standing challenges: discovering the laws that govern concept learning and... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Concepts and Cognition 3. Process and Structure 4. Categorical Invariance and Logical Manifolds 5. A Cognitive Mechanism for Invariance Detection 6. Principles of Invariance Detection 7. A Law of Invariance in Human Conceptual Behavior 8. On Modal Concepts and Goodness of Pattern 9. Information as a Change in Conceptual Complexity 10. A Path toward Probabilistic Processes and Functional Descriptions 11. Contextual Choice and Structure 12. Concluding Remarks and Open Problems
Biography
Ronaldo Vigo is Associate Professor of Mathematical & Computational Cognitive Science at Ohio University, USA, where he is also director of the Center for the Advancement of Cognitive Science. He received his doctoral degree on Mathematical & Computational Cognitive Science from Indiana University at Bloomington.
